Organisation
The team
Around 140 people work in the Energy HUB, closely linked to LRCS research activities, including 4 companies housed in the HUB: TIAMAT, G-Lyte, A2MAC1, CRYSTAL ENERGY. It is important to emphasize that our scientific activity is largely carried out in a network (ALISTORE / DESTINY, RS2E) and that a significant number of PhD students are affiliated to / co-directed by 2 laboratories.
Permanent staff, engineers and technicians
As of December 31, 2024, the LRCS comprises 35 permanent staff (including 12 women) and 8 staff on fixed-term contracts / Support for Administration and Research. Permanent staff include 3 PAR (Personnels d’Appui à la Recherche, administrative), 7 SAR (Personnels de Soutien à la Recherche, technical), 8 Professors, 11 Associate Professors (5 of whom have HDR), 3 CNRS Research Directors and 3 CNRS Research Fellows. Staff on fixed-term contracts work on the projects we coordinate and on the prototyping platform. The average age of LRCS permanent staff is 47.
Young researchers
The LRCS also has 6 post-docs and over sixty PhD students.
Administration
The laboratory is managed by Anne CHARBONNIER (CNRS), assisted by two UPJV employees. We also employ a dozen CCD staff to administer/manage/steer the training, development and research projects we manage.
Structuration of the research activities
The LRCS operates as a single-team facility, focusing on materials for energy storage and conversion: batteries, fuel cells, hydrogen storage, photovoltaic devices. All the scientific achievements of the LRCS can be presented in a matrix format, which has the advantage of listing our field of action exhaustively and making it easy to understand. In this way, each published article, each thesis defended, can be stamped according to one of the 8 Technologies calling on (at least) one of the 9 Skills and Methods of LRCS members.
Experts groups